Thursday, April 15th

Reimagining Assessment

AVIVA MCCLURE

Using the Ladder of Inference methodology and Visual Thinking Strategy and Adult Learning, this workshop is grounded in using trauma-informed approaches towards assessment. Folks are encouraged to bring a journal!

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Reimagining the Art History Classroom

DR. LAUREN KILROY-EWBANK

This talk will consider some of the ways that we can reimagine our art history classes (especially our general survey classes) to disrupt the canon, work towards art histories that do not present European art as superior, and help to weaken the binary western/non-western paradigm. It will use specific classroom experiences and a few case studies to get us to reflect on ways we can work together to create a more equitable, diverse, and caring classroom.

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Reimagining Critique; For Students

LAUREN WILLIAMS

As students, you each play an integral role in your peers' development as artists and designers: through critique, your interpretations of and reactions to peers' work shape its evolution and their growth as creators. That's a huge responsibility. If the ways we learn to critique don't actively challenge white supremacy and other forms of oppression, they compound, reproduce, and amplify them in ways that harm you, your peers, and the fields you will soon enter as professionals. How can you hold yourself accountable to that responsibility as a student? How have you seen oppression reproduced through critique? What have you been taught about critique? In this session, we'll examine the ways in which critiques can uphold or challenge white supremacy; explore methods for offering critique that deliver dignity and interrupt racism; and rethink your agency in moments when your own work is being critiqued.

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Reimagining Critique; For Educators

LAUREN WILLIAMS

In art and design classrooms, faculty shape the conditions and contexts in which critique take place. More than anything, we model "acceptable" critique standards, norms, language, and much more simply by how we deliver feedback ourselves. If the ways we teach and model critique don't actively challenge white supremacy and other forms of oppression, they compound, reproduce, and amplify them in ways that harm students, faculty, and the communities in which we practice. How do our choices and actions, then, shape students' learning experiences? How might we use moments in critique to intentionally examine the social conditions that produce and perpetuate racism as much as we interrogate form? In this session, we'll examine the ways in which critiques can uphold or challenge white supremacy and introduce ways to redistribute power to students as explore methods for facilitating critiques that deliver dignity and interrupt racism in our pedagogies and our classrooms.

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Navigating Critical Conversations and Microaggressions in the Classroom

AVIVA MCCLURE

This workshop will tackle the questions:

How do we recognize when we are speaking from bias?

How do we deal with microaggressions?

How do we participate in conversations where we can all learn from one another?

Folks are encouraged to bring a journal!

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